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3 AUGUST 2021
COMMUNICATIONS QUICK LINKS
Journal Club -
UPDATE
Relationships
Australia 5/8/21
Click & Connect -
Sharing History
WWW.PCAFAMILIES.ORG.AU with Others
11/8/21
Journal Club - Relationships Australia
Topic: Relationships Australia Post Adoption Services
Please join us at 8pm on Thursday 5 August by registering here
Relationships Australia is now responsible for Post Adoption Support Services (PASS) nationwide.
Join our speakers, Nikki Hartmann, Program Manager of Post Adoption Programs and Jackie
Blake, Assistant Manager for Relationships Australia Victoria.
New Video - Youtube Podcast 13
Lets get physical with neuro therapy
and "fix" trauma & developmental delays.
There is often an element of a child's unknown history and underlying trauma which can impact
relationships and development. You may be doing all you can but nothing seems to work
because the children's brains haven't yet been primed for development. This may be because the
brain is stuck in fight, flight, freeze or because milestones have been missed. Yvette Knights
offers neuro development therapy, a physical therapy, that helps with rewiring the brain and
meeting missed milestones. The science behind it is based on polyvagal theory. This therapy can
help with emotional regulation, speech and language, motor development, organisational skills,
problem solving skills, learning and balance. Diagnoses like ADHD or autism and situations like
food intolerances, anger and tantrums, self harming and more can be helped. Yvette also advises
carers and parents to also be aware of their own fight, flight and freeze response triggers that can
get activated when a child, who you are doing everything for, is simply not responding and
moving forward as you might expect. Listen to the podcast by clicking here
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News - Carer Strategy and Census Report
The Carer Strategy Action Plan 2021-22 and the Victorian Home-based
Carers Census Report are now available on the Victorian Government
website here. With plans to meaningfully advance and improve the
experiences and outcomes of carers and children, it lays the foundations
for subsequent action plans over the years to come. Carer infographics
are shared here and highlight that for both kinship and permanent
carers the top challenges are history of trauma and behavioural
challenges. The infographics also highlight that the average age is 54
and over 90% are female.
News - Strategic Plan
PCA Families advocates for and delivers peer support and other trauma
"Improving informed services so that every child who cannot live permanently with
the lived their birth parents thrives in a strong, stable and permanent family. To
experience achieve this vision, the PCA Families Board has updated the Strategic Plan,
which we share on our website here
of young If you have comments or suggestions on how we can achieve these aims,
people" please contact us at info@pcafamilies.org.au
News - Holidays
Edmund Rice week long holiday camps are currently open for enrolment
for the September holiday break. These camps offer opportunities for
children to rise above their challenges. Further information is here.
News - Home Stretch and Better Futures
The link to information on Home Stretch and Better Futures for permanent carers on our
website is here. The Department of Families, Fairness and Housing has begun mailing for
children turning 18 between July to September 2021 as these will be the first group progressed.
Only young people in permanent care turning 18 years of age from 1 July 2021 will be eligible.
Referral to Home Stretch will be gradually progressed when we have the appropriate processes
in place and information available. No eligible young people will miss out on support.
At this stage we are asking that you wait for further information to be made available before
getting in touch with PCA Families, DFFH or Better Futures providers. PCA Families is currently
not processing applications.
If you do receive a letter from DFFH regarding Better Futures, please call the number of the
Better Futures provider not PCA Families. We thank everyone for their patience.
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Click and Connect -
Sharing Your Childs Back Story with Others
Topic: Sharing the Childs Back Story
Please join us at midday on Wednesday 11 August by registering here
See our website for future topics and links here.
Often other people can come with misconceptions and questions about your child's history
and in particular their birth family history. So how do you and your child share information with
others in the best way for the benefit of your child? What do you share with teachers or other
children's parents? How do you field pesky questions, challenge myths and get others to
embrace what your child needs from a trauma informed lens?
Shared learnings and knowledge to share with each other for the benefit of all!
Each Wednesday fortnight various parents and carers come together on Zoom to learn from each
other and share their challenges and lived experience in our Click and Connect meetings. We
share the joys and the struggles and find new ways to tackle situations by sharing together.
We welcome any new parents or carers that would like to join us for one or more meetings.
Journal Club - Relationships Australia
Topic: Relationships Australia Post Adoption Services
Please join us at 8pm on Thursday 5 August by registering here
Relationships Australia is now responsible for Post Adoption Support Services (PASS)
nationwide. PASS provide support to intercountry adoptees, adoptive parents and families, birth
parents and families, as well as providing training to allied health professionals about adoption.
Join our speakers, Nikki Hartmann, Program Manager of Post Adoption Programs and Jackie
Blake, Assistant Manager for Relationships Australia Victoria. To view the website visit here
Flexi-Funds
A reminder that PCA Families has Flexible Funding available to meet the extraordinary needs of children and
young people subject to a Permanent Care Order, or where you are receiving DFFH care allowance and have a
Family Court Order or Special Needs Adoption Order.
Flexi funds can be used for therapeutic, educational and medical services, to build skills, interests or attachment,
to elevate family contact and cultural identity, to offer respite, home medication or other services like
whitegoods, one off clothing, estate planning or vehicle needs eg car seats.
For details about what the funds can be used for - see here
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